Wellness: Now a $3.72 Trillion Global Industry and one of the world’s largest, fastest growing, and most resilient markets. It was a true honor to attend The Global Wellness Summit — an invitation-only gathering as one of the nearly 500 delegates from across 46 countries, held this year in Tyrol, Austria.

It was mid-November in downtown Toronto when I was invited to spend a month at the breathtaking Ti Kaye Resort and Spa in St. Lucia to develop their yoga and wellness programming. With the dream of elevating a 4-star resort and spa to one of the world’s most sought-after go-to spa destinations, complete with wellness and yoga programming, I got to work. Read on for a quick snapshot of my top 3 #dreamjob priorities at Ti Kaye Resort and Spa!

Hosting a company retreat has the great potential to positively transform and significantly boost the morale and connectivity of your team. Deciding to host a healthy, wellness-inspired retreat can transform the people themselves and the relationships each of your staff members has with one another in an even more powerful and impactful way. This could be one of the most important and ultimately profitable investments that you make! Read on for our top five tips on planning a healthy company retreat.

Remember that feeling that washes over you each time you stroll into your favourite spa? Everything from the scent, to the lighting, to the energy you experience upon arriving in a spa can be translated into your own home with just a little time and effort. Of all places and spaces, your home can and should become your ultimate haven for relaxation and restoration. Our top ten tips below will help you to create a peaceful and serene spa-inspired home.

Our team of expert retreat hosts have put together a top ten list of must know tips on hosting a successful wellness getaway. We hope our guidelines can spare you hours of headache and lost revenue while simultaneously helping to ensure you are en- route to hosting the retreat of your dreams!

Built at the cliff’s edge with dramatic views of the silver sands of Anse Cochon and the azure Caribbean sea below, it’s no wonder that the Spa is quickly becoming one of the most sought after on the island; one of Ti Kaye’s best kept secrets. View our spa profile on the Kai Koko Spa at Ti Kaye Resort and Spa, Saint Lucia!

The essence of travel is changing. From detoxing to juicing to boot-camp to yoga and beyond, the new 2-week vacation is all inclusive of more than just food and drink - but instead of wellness in all of its forms - fitness, spa treatments, diet plans and more. People are going away to heal, rejuvenate, detoxify, re-inspire and repurpose their lives.

“With a smartphone in every pocket and more apps than stars in the sky, the world isn’t just at your fingertips—it’s racing toward your front door. The beauty and wellness industries are not about to be left behind, and app-driven on-demand options are cropping up left and right, offering people access to healthy options wherever, whenever, and however they want.”

As human beings, it is our innate time too, along with plant and animal life, to catalyze new beginnings and shift our life rhythms. As we all transition into the Spring months, we offer you our holistic Spring Cleaning Guide as a tool to help support you on your journey of renewal and rebirth!

Wellness Vacations are taking the world by storm (a very calm, peaceful and inspiring storm of course). If you and your resort, hotel or B & B are not already engaged in the wellness vacation, the time is now. The yoga, meditation and healthy eating movement has gone viral and resorts are either in, or out. Here are our top ten ways to engage with yoga, meditation and mindfulness retreats and stay on trend in 2016.

The annual Global Wellness Summit (GWS) took place in Mexico City this past November with over 470 delegates from more than 40 countries. Attendees gathered together to discuss areas of growth in the industry, health and wellness trends, and ultimately to exchange knowledge and ideas in the field of preventative wellness to better address chronic disease and rising health care costs. With more energy and attention in the field of wellness than ever before, the Summit identified 10 major shifts taking place in the industry.

Gratitude might best be described as a genuine feeling of thankfulness or an appreciation of a benefit one has received. Importantly, a number of recent studies in the relatively new field of positive psychology have begun documenting a host of positive links between gratitude and our physical and emotional wellbeing. One of the most positive findings to share is that gratitude is actually a skill—a skill that can be learned and then consciously called upon to significantly impact our happiness emotional quotient or “EQ”!

Welcome 2016! We invite you in from a place of optimism, hope and commitment to both new and renewed lifestyle commitments that holistically nourish our beings. Just as with each new sunrise, each New Year offers us an enhanced opportunity to dedicate and reaffirm positive health commitments that can lead to greater strength, clarity and peace in both the body and mind. Engaging in but just a few mindful commitments can return profound and lasting benefits.

Wellness can be described as the quality or state of being healthy in both body and mind. The result of deliberate and conscious effort, wellness is multi-dimensional and holistic and certainly changes over time. As a mindset, a movement, and now an industry, wellness has become somewhat of phenomenon that is definitely here to stay.

Core Essence has put together some of our favourite wellness inspired gift— our Wellness Gift Giving Guide, if you will— suggestions for those you love this holiday season! We hope these ideas that can all be purchased online will leave you more time and space to share with those you love this holiday season! Who are you shopping for?!

As we approach the busy holiday season we wanted to share a couple of highlights from some of our favorite blog posts featured on MindBodyGreen. These articles do a wonderful job of communicating the value of carving out time for self-care and some of the incredible benefits that can be deeply absorbed while on retreat. Hold these thoughts with you as you navigate through the next couple of months, perhaps setting the intention that 2016 might just be the year of you!